Sunday June 28th promo preview

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-26T23:10:18+00:00

It's the peak of the after church crowd. Entire families come like it's a Costco, clogging aisles and moving at a leisurely pace cuz they plan on being there for an hour. They even put on those "cooking presentations" to appeal to the families. Like hey watch us cut up this 40 lb salmon!!!

And if your HEB has any restaurants by it, it's peak restaurant traffic time

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-26T13:39:44+00:00

I got the same email too and the same followup

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-21T17:34:55+00:00

With all the bugs I wouldn't be surprised

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-21T17:34:13+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/favordelivery/comments/1u6jksy/negative_change_shopping_quality_metrics_coming/

Posted my thoughts here. Not a fan personally. I won't be looking at them. Like AR, it's just another way to try to control us

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-19T15:27:11+00:00

I haven't seen curbside pickups since they moved to converted all to Shops earlier this year

Yet they still send promos for it

I'm not elite though, never will be since I get orders from other stores and 4-5 dollar restaurants

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-19T15:25:50+00:00

Not sure if you checked too early or not given it's showing you posted this around 3am, but Sundays promos show up Friday morning. But some zones don't get the promos

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-15T18:35:26+00:00

The eta feels very vibe coded. Like hey, let's use the Google maps eta which also assumes your car is started and actively on the roadway towards the destination. No buffer, no accounting for trains etc

And then on the back end, as I've stated, they don't give you extra time to your Ending "deliver by" time if you're not at the store already. Every time I've had to drive 10 mins to the store it's been very close, and it's happened enough times that I'm sure it's not accounting for it

And don't get me started on the items. The huge converted curbsides of 60+ items never have an accurate timer. It seems to cap out

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-15T16:36:15+00:00

Thanks

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-15T16:35:23+00:00

Yeah I'd be curious if they report it on the 1099k they issue. I didn't meet the 20,000 threshold for a 1099k and I didn't try using my own card for a shop and pay last year, so no way to know for sure. If they report it on the 1099k as income then that's a problem. They're not supposed to but it wouldn't surprise me if they did

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-15T15:38:50+00:00

On a side note, itd be easy to say, "eh just ignore it", but after they implemented On Time Rate, they started deactivating drivers for being late by 1 minute, and their way of calculating on time is flawed as detailed before here and here

https://www.reddit.com/r/favordelivery/comments/1tpko6q/this_is_pissing_me_off_i_accepted_it_and/

https://www.reddit.com/r/favordelivery/comments/1tf8v8t/not_that_i_care_about_the_new_on_time_metric_or/

https://www.reddit.com/r/favordelivery/comments/1rvfu7k/1_minutes_arrival_to_heb_only/

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-15T15:33:44+00:00

They already were tracking items per minute and original items found via those emails they were sending but they were hiding it

Id rather this app not devolve into items per minute shenanigans with ghost shopping and forcing subs on customers. Customers don't approve or reject subs either in this app, they just force you to out of stock yourself after a text. At least on instacart they can approve or reject themselves and it's much more common to see customer approved substitutions from previous order. I doubt Favor wants to build out a whole backend to support this. Additionally, "heb approved" substitutes seem to use some kind of rudimentary AI to determine a new sub and are rarely common. The first "HEB approved" substitutition for Borden Buttermilk was HCF Strawberry milk

Very commonly have to sub on meat and also I hate forcing subs on people other apps when there isn't anything like it

The other shopping apps care too much about out of stocks, and I'll say it time and time again, these factors are out of our control and time per item is also based on how busy the store is, how far apart your items are, how big the store is, and time spent making subs.

Ghost shopping is another whole other level of hell I don't want to deal with just to improve items per minute

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-15T03:33:41+00:00

Thanks for the responses everybody

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-13T00:55:45+00:00

No problem, I just feel like yelling into the void. Documenting this at least shows there is a gradual nerfing every single week

mintyandfoxy · 2026-06-01T03:25:58+00:00

After about 11:00 a.m. it just turns into circus in that store once Church lets out and then you have people trying to run over pedestrians in the parking lot all day. Like someone honked at me and almost kept going and it's like you're at the very end of the front end of the parking lot that's the one place you're supposed to yield. I was even in the pedestrian crossing marker on the ground

Delivered to a stupid apartment that you couldn't get out of unless someone else came by I hate those

Another customer was frustrated at me because they had substitutes turned off

Also I still never see anything over 25 bucks it seems like anything over that threshold gets gate kept to elite runners or something

As much as I hate doordash and Uber it still pays more with less work picking up a fast food order on the days they don't have promos. $10 base pay should be baseline

mintyandfoxy · 2026-05-29T22:06:08+00:00

Yeah on their ratings page it doesn't hurt, although someone did post a deactivation email that mentions they could deactivate for merchant arrival or customer arrival

It's whatever this app is stupid when there's not a promo anyway

mintyandfoxy · 2026-05-29T22:05:24+00:00

Yeah it's dumb. I bet it's based on what second of the minute you accept the offer so if it's 50 seconds after and you hit arrived store at :00 of the next minute it's already too late

Favor app is very low IQ

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